Inventor · Lakeway, TX, US

Bruce L. Morton

40Patents
18h-index
37Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 30, 1982 → Aug 10, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7042765B2 Memory bit line segment isolation Physics 108 Expired
US5474947A Nonvolatile memory process Electricity 54 Expired
US4713797A Current mirror sense amplifier for a non-volatile memory Physics 45 Expired
US5949706A Static random access memory cell having a thin film transistor (TFT) pass gate connection to a bit line Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 43 Expired
US5202855A DRAM with a controlled boosted voltage level shifting driver Physics 42 Expired
US4710902A Technique restore for a dynamic random access memory Physics 36 Expired
US4943948A Program check for a non-volatile memory Physics 35 Expired
US6791883B2 Program and erase in a thin film storage non-volatile memory Physics 34 Expired
US5381051A High voltage charge pump Electricity 33 Expired
US5721704A Control gate driver circuit for a non-volatile memory and memory using same Physics 31 Expired
US4727519A Memory device including a clock generator with process tracking Physics 30 Expired
US4791615A Memory with redundancy and predecoded signals Physics 30 Expired
US5159572A DRAM architecture having distributed address decoding and timing control Physics 29 Expired
US5365121A Charge pump with controlled ramp rate Electricity 25 Expired
US5729493A Memory suitable for operation at low power supply voltages and sense amplifier therefor Physics 21 Expired
US5706228A Method for operating a memory array Physics 21 Expired
US6128224A Method and apparatus for writing an erasable non-volatile memory Physics 21 Expired
US5754482A Memory using undecoded precharge for high speed data sensing Physics 19 Expired
US5898619A Memory cell having a plural transistor transmission gate and method of formation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US5740109A Non-linear charge pump Physics 18 Expired
US9520173B1 Magnetic random access memory (MRAM) and method of operation Physics 15 Active
US6075727A Method and apparatus for writing an erasable non-volatile memory Physics 13 Expired
US4455493A Substrate bias pump Physics 12 Expired
US5422846A Nonvolatile memory having overerase protection Physics 10 Expired
US8189410B1 Memory device and method thereof Physics 7 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.